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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

OTHO H. ORTON, OF MADISON, \VISCONSIN.

PROCESS OF HAND-PAINTING PDRTRAlTS, FlGllRES, AND LANDSCAPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,348, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed December 3, 1883. (No specimens.)

upon what is known in commerce as flock-paper or flock, (being made of all colors and shades,)-used commonly for wall-decorations. The oil-colors are to be applied by a brush in the usual manner of painting upon canvas.

The flock constitutes the ground and aids the forming of various shades desired or not, as the subject to be represented requires, The velvety surface of the flock has the effect to soften and blend the lines and strokes of the brush. It holds the colors in place where applied, so that the artist can paint over and over the same surface, in order to get the desired efiect, without waiting for the colors to dry. The application of oil-colors or pigments upon the flock largely facilitates the accomplishmentoi' theartists purpose and idea either in attempting portrait, landscape, figure, or animal painting upon flock-paper. The effect is magical under an artists hand, and far surpasses any effect and relief produced in any other process of oil-painting, and without exercising any of the precautions or the application of any of the vexatious rules usually necessary with oil-painting in any other process.

I am aware that oil-colors have heretofore been applied to velvet and other textile fabrics by means of sharp-pointed instruments; also, that a metal powder has been applied to textile fabrics by means of a brush; and I lay no claim to such improvements.

I am also aware that the walls of rooms have been papered with the ordinary flock-paper in its original or uncolored state, and that different shades of any desired color are laid thereon, as more fully described in English Patent N 0. 1,333 of 1874.

I claim as my invention- The process of hand-painting in oil-colors in landscape, portrait, animal, and figure painting, which consists in preparing flockpaper with any desired color; secondly, ap-

plying to the colored side thereof, by means of a brush, the pigments or oil-colors, as and for the purpose set forth.

FRANK E. PARKER, XVILLIAM W. POLLARD. 

